BIKE PORN

Orbea, meet The Readership. Readership, meet the women's '07 road bike from Orbea. Notice the tubing--smooth at all the joints. Notice also the shorter top tube that is not positioned at an obnoxious angle to the seat tube, as so many manufacturers pompously do with women's bikes. Notice also all this bike geek jargon I am writing right now. Please note I am just about to pee in my pants because I simply cannot stand how absolutely gorgeous this bike is.



Go ahead, click on the image to enlarge it. You know you want to.








That top tube--it's molded so that the end by the seat tube is rounded and the end by the stem is flat, I mean, MY GOD PEOPLE, this is a WORK OF ART--we're talking a Formula One grade M30S carbon frame AND it's purple, though the manufacturer says pink, but we won't hold that against them, AND it weighs about 0.00034g, which means it climbs like a MOUNTAIN GOAT and corners like BUTTER.

I feel lightheaded.